New Starbucks, Home Depots, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and higher-end restaurants tend to be indicative of a community where the median income is good and population is growing.

I say software engineers are still grossly underpaid compared to traders and investment bankers on Wall Street.

For ex, I bought a place that needs significant work done.

Real estate you can make significantly more than from stocks (unless you are some great day trader), but it also requires more time and money.

I currently launched a corporation which I founded with different intentions, but being a international multi-level marketing company which taught people how to trade the forex and binary option markets we unfortunately never got if off the ground as intended and at this point of my life I'm getting better on knowing when to "Hold em and when to fold em" so to speak..

I am learning about options with a conservative, investor's approach (not a trader's approach) and I am making income with options.  

Hi AllI have posted some queries in the Houston Group forum about 8 days ago, however there has been no responses and the group seems dead :-(I have been an active real estate trader in New Zealand since 2001.Our main strategy is to make low ball offers on REO single family houses in first home buyer neighbourhoods,rehab and sell them to owner occupiers.

I found one of the most respected traders for that market and signed a deal to buy some small quantity from him (I didn't make much money on that trade :) ).

@Todd Trader welcome to the site.

If you can charge more rent: then calculate the the NPV using the cost of the dishwasher as N = 0 and your yearly cashflows will be the extra rent you charge (for ex. $25/month or $300/year).